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SAN ANTONIO — <\/strong>What a capital idea!<\/p>\n

Texas’s second-largest city has a ban on handheld cell phones and texting while driving.<\/p>\n

How do I know that? I read repeated messages on electronic highway signs as my wife and I tooled through San Antonio en route from Rockport to Johnson City.<\/p>\n

Holy mackerel! I lost count of the signs I saw that warned motorists that texting and using handheld phones was in violation of a city ordinance.<\/p>\n

What a concept! Letting motorists know while they’re driving through the city that they’d better behave themselves while weaving in and out of traffic.<\/p>\n

Gosh, do you think other cities should adopt such a proactive approach to notifying motorists — particularly those who don’t live in that city — of such municipal restrictions?<\/p>\n

Amarillo has a similar ban. It also has a couple of interstate highways running through it.<\/p>\n

I’ve seen general messages on occasion flashed on electronic signs about the hazards of texting or using handheld phones while driving. I do not recall reading anything about a municipal ordinance that bans such activity.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking it’s a pretty tool to let motorists know they’d better obey the law while they’re traveling through the city.<\/p>\n

Footnote<\/strong>: I would have taken a picture of\u00a0a sign across the freeway, except … well, you know.<\/p>\n

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SAN ANTONIO — What a capital idea! Texas’s second-largest city has a ban on handheld cell phones and texting while driving. How do I know that? I read repeated messages on electronic highway signs as my wife and I tooled through San Antonio en route from Rockport to Johnson City. Holy mackerel! I lost count … Continue reading Motorists get phone-ban message on highway<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[276,5502,4093,5503],"class_list":["post-11099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-uncategorized","tag-amarillo","tag-cell-phone-bans","tag-san-antonio","tag-texting-bans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11102,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions\/11102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}